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With this project we aim to expose the generic nature of the polykatoikia, while recovering the architecture of the city beyond the pixel of the single dwelling. Instead of a master plan we propose a catalogue of architectural actions that aim to connect the fragmented dwellings into coherent and formally finite collective urban forms. These forms are the courtyard, the block, the street, and the most collective layer of the city: the ground floor.

Pier Vittorio Aureli, Maria S. Giudici, Platon Issaias, "From Dom-ino to Polykatoikia," Athens, Greece, 2011

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In Dom-ino, architecture is not simply a shelter, but in the words of Michel Foucault, it is a “dispositif”, an apparatus that puts to work and controls the most basic faculties of unskilled workers.

Pier Vittorio Aureli, Maria S. Giudici, Platon Issaias, From Dom-ino to Polykatoikia, 2012

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Designed in 1914 as self-help construction system, Dom-ino (from the Latin dooms, "house", and an abbreviation of "innovation") has become the ubiquitous form of construction in all developing countries: a reinforced concrete framework open to any infill and thus to any spatial interpretation. In developing this model, Le Corbusier was inspired by wooden pillar buildings in Turkey on one hand, and Flemish houses on the other. Le Corbusier looked attentively to vernacular construction systems in order to shorten the distance between architecture and everyday building processes, but he reinterpreted these vernacular examples within the logic of a typically industrial plan and the new developments in concrete construction.

Pier Vittorio Aureli, Maria S. Giudici, Platon Issaias, From Dom-ino to Polykatoikia, 2012